How Screws Are Made | Automated Factory Tour in China

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We visited a screw factory in Dongguan, China to show how screws are made. Many of these are for the PC hardware industry, like standoffs and thumb screws.
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This is another factory tour with Cooler Master, but it is a third-party factory responsible for screw manufacturing. Screws start as a steel wire and get fed through various tap and die machines until they eventually become the hardware we use daily.
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@GamersNexus 5 жыл бұрын

Find our factory tour playlist here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5dmlN2hnL3MYWg.html Support our tours! These are expensive, and your merch purchases on our store really help make them possible. Pick something up today: store.gamersnexus.net/

@djsmileyoflasvegas 5 жыл бұрын

"How its Made" Gamers Nexus edition...i would like to see an series of this like the tv show but all on computer side.👍

@yorchli3152 5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your Q500L review, I love your content GN, these factory tours are very cool from the playlist.

@Jennifur68 5 жыл бұрын

This series of how its made reminds me of watching Mr Rodgers with my kids and he'd go on field trips to the bakery or someplace.

@furiouscabbage5741 5 жыл бұрын

this video is so screwy

@drake6836 5 жыл бұрын

Don't 2 Screws screw each other and bam another screw is born?

@dycedargselderbrother5353 5 жыл бұрын

6:39 The spinning platter that uses angular momentum to kick out toppled screws at a predictable place is very elegant.

@cat-.- Жыл бұрын

@@user-xl7ns4zt6z these sort of intricate contraptions are sure to be a headache to set up, but once you get it working it's marvelous to look at

@wizewizard1840 5 ай бұрын

@@cat-.- actually they are pretty easy to set up.

@TruceTV 5 жыл бұрын

"....must be a coincidence" 😂

@DevineDigital 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder who they are talking about? I've never heard of the brand QUADRO before, must be an NVIDIA competitor.

@Felix-ve9hs 5 жыл бұрын

@@DevineDigital Oh yes, the AMD Quadro Pro

@squatchhammer7215 4 жыл бұрын

@starshipeleven there's probably a loophole that allows them to be able to show the manufacturing. It could be also Chinese law that allows it like the full reverse engineering law that the CCP has for manufacturers.

@pistonsjem 2 жыл бұрын

@@DevineDigital Shin Qua Dro

@EvelynDayless 5 жыл бұрын

When I first subscribed to GN, I knew one day I would finally get the content I really needed from them.

@jamieamicone8070 5 жыл бұрын

You needed to know how screws are made? Lol well congrats u got the video

@klobiforpresident2254 5 жыл бұрын

Cat videos? Check. How it's made? Check. Screwing? Check.

@mycosys 5 жыл бұрын

You know, there's easier ways to get a screw

@heretolevitateme 5 жыл бұрын

Steve, this content is awesome. IDK how popular it is, but it's hella awesome.

@hypnoticlizard9693 5 жыл бұрын

For me this was the best one yet. The machines were pretty cool.

@BitterCynical 5 жыл бұрын

Inb4 Discovery Channel issues a copyright strike. Seeing how even the most mundane stuff is mass produced is always fun.

@evieni1465 3 жыл бұрын

Stop saying hella.

@benitollan 5 жыл бұрын

No person was screwed during the making of this video.

@peyotepete4903 5 жыл бұрын

Comment of the day! 👍

@loserspearl 5 жыл бұрын

Uhh maybe nvidia?

@CaveyMoth 5 жыл бұрын

This is so screwy.

@ohgary 5 жыл бұрын

How about the American factory worker? Ah, screw him!

@TarisRedwing 5 жыл бұрын

That inspection wheel room was very satisfying to watch. More of that plz or an hour long loop is needed

@JarrodsTech 5 жыл бұрын

The screw making machine has screws in it, where did those come from tho 🤔

@Rooachie 3 жыл бұрын

What came first, the screw or the screw making machine

@homiecat2386 3 жыл бұрын

Hand made screws

@-yeme- 3 жыл бұрын

it is cool tho bcus those screws were made by a different machine, which was made by a different machine etc etc, then before automation someone made the first screw making machine by hand w hacksaws and drills and files etc and those tools were made by ppl using other hand tools and on and on back through centuries and millennia until literally every manufactured item can be traced back to the first stone hand axe like 2 million years ago, even the most advanced 7nm CPU is a direct descendant of a piece of flint with a sharp edge chipped into it. and the CPU and the pointy stone are both made of silicon.

@yobryan88 3 жыл бұрын

Screwception

@suliman101 3 жыл бұрын

@@-yeme- even machines have an evolutionary process

@manvasq 5 жыл бұрын

I used to be a screw machines setup man for 10 years up until 2001 when the plant shutdown. So there is where my job went.

@grandsporter 5 жыл бұрын

I guess you got screwed

@1pcfred 5 жыл бұрын

@@grandsporter 10 years setting up to get screwed. What can you expect?

@joshmakeshift 5 жыл бұрын

i just recently left a job refabbing old screw machines. its still a huge industry...

@manvasq 5 жыл бұрын

@@joshmakeshift I've been told mostly Acme and Davenport.

@joshmakeshift 5 жыл бұрын

@@manvasq yep I was working on acme mostly ... Some shutte and gildys... adding full cnc control to the old ones.

@Kurukx 5 жыл бұрын

These supply chain factory tours are great :) I could see a PSU tour down to caps and transformers etc as very interesting.

@agenericaccount3935 5 жыл бұрын

When A mommy die and a daddy raw stock love eachother very much and become involved in international trade.

@dirtymcgurdy5515 5 жыл бұрын

jesus man. I am laughing way to hard at this.

@motomortus4009 5 жыл бұрын

Hey that's what I used to do. Nice to see it getting some love. Ran 4 die 4 blow 1/2in sacama among many others. Depending on the size machine you can make way more then 20k a day. Also the machine doesn't compress the wire. The wire is made to to size using a draw die, and wire machine before even getting to the header. One to take out any irregularities in size, we are talking 0.001in in wire size can make a difference in the final part, And two, so you can order one size wire, and make it work for many size jobs. The parts you where given are called the cut off, impact, upset and final. The most manual part as well is the machine set up. Welding wire takes a few min. Changing all the tooling and setup can take an hour or so depending on if its a sample part, and what tooling needs to be worked on, ect. I would pay to see someone fully set up a 6 die header in 5 min, im calling bs on that one.

@unfortunatelyrob2635 5 жыл бұрын

I love seeing stuff like this. My dad worked in a factory and I had a summer job in a different factory (and industry) one summer and seeing the level of automation was mind blowing. I was in awe the first time I saw it. I wondered how stuff like this could operate without breaking down, but it turns out that it does break down, a lot. Most of the workers were tech guys whose only job was to make sure they went back online asap when they broke down.

@Alicatt1 4 жыл бұрын

Worked for a precision engineering company in the Far North of Scotland in 1980, we made around 250k screws per week plus other threaded inserts for electrical plugs/sockets/fittings we also made parts in stainless steel and aluminium. The screws etc. were fed by magazines that took between 10 and 20 3m bars of various diameter. The noise was indescribable :) I turned various parts out of aluminium that the automatic machines could not do so easily. Well it paid for my flying lessons, and the factory was within walking distance of the flight school :D Thanks for sharing this video it brought a lot of happy memories back.

@KMcKaig72 3 жыл бұрын

Having worked around similar screw machines, I can honestly say they are as steampunk as they look. All cams, levers and gears. Good stuff!

@toniido 5 жыл бұрын

You are my new how it's made

@xzaviastreet 5 жыл бұрын

Next video: Intel's money: how its still being made

@mrsasshole 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this. So many products that we take for granted where we have no idea how they go from raw materials to a finished product. Great work.

@xero110 5 жыл бұрын

6:30 I used to build machines like this. Everything from the vibratory feeders to the inspection system. This was a cool video, thanks.

@caminho7340 5 жыл бұрын

Love these factory tours. Great channel

@poofypoof6508 5 жыл бұрын

Gamers Nexus, thanks a lot for all of these videos from manufacturing processes. Very interesting!

@Keullo-eFIN 5 жыл бұрын

Never thought that a video about screws would be this interesting. Love this series!

@kaos. 5 жыл бұрын

Explanatory and interesting video as usual. Thank you! ♥

@sacredsock8031 5 жыл бұрын

Of the recent batch of factory tours I think this is the most fascinating one. Thanks

@aLQuarter 5 жыл бұрын

These videos are amazing and really well made. Thanks Gamers Nexus

@spierskalla 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you very much for providing a date reference when sharing cost of machinery . This can be very helpful but unfortunately very rare. It demonstrates you have insight and/or confidence that the video may be around for many years! 😄

@joshashe2087 5 жыл бұрын

At my job I use hundreds of screws everyday, I always wondered how these are made. Thanks for the video.

@arcogyom3879 5 жыл бұрын

Every new knowledge is good to have, thanks for this video !

@sevanmelemedjian5541 5 жыл бұрын

These videos are very rare and very informative I think. Keep it up !

@mystq101 5 жыл бұрын

Loving these videos, top job everyone involved!!!!

@Ironbunny80 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Love this kind of stuff.

@iheartmysquid 5 жыл бұрын

Big ups to cooler master too! For giving tours of their suppliers. Good work GN

@PEZ1514 5 жыл бұрын

this stuff is very interesting. People are hating why? No passion to understand how stuff is made? I love it

@wysetech2000 5 жыл бұрын

CoffeeAllDay It's because their Mommy didn't show them how to use a screwdriver.

@PEZ1514 5 жыл бұрын

@@wysetech2000 seriously lol

@piers389 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't actually think I would enjoy a video about how screws are made, but this was really good. Again, thanks for the new informative series of factory tours.

@dcphillips1991 5 жыл бұрын

I like these factory tours, it's a really good series. One thing I'd really like to see is the fluid dynamics research in fans and cases.

@fourtwanky 5 жыл бұрын

I love these kinds of videos! Keep them commin'

@breilly2750 5 жыл бұрын

@5:52....A laundry basket in a Wok. I find this quite innovative in some perplexing way.

@benrowbotham6048 5 жыл бұрын

I was a mechanic for 5 years before a injury and had no idea how they are made. This stuff is interesting keep it coming please Steve.

@skaltura 5 жыл бұрын

These are interesting! :) That level of refinement on mfg process is amazing :O

@koldfizzion3762 5 жыл бұрын

OMG awesome video you guys!!! I love stuff like this. So interesting. Thanks you guys PS: I work in manufacturing, I can really appreciate this video. Very cool stuff.

@MrZoichi 5 жыл бұрын

"Screw Class" George Takei: Oh My! Also, big respect to those floor managers for looking out for all those machines.

@StefanEtienneTheVerrgeRep 5 жыл бұрын

I would like to see how anti static bracelets are made. I hear it all starts with unicorn hair.

@fungusamongus69420 5 жыл бұрын

But is yours wireless tho?

@themisterh 5 жыл бұрын

the wireless ones are exceptionally good at fighting cancer too

@fungusamongus69420 5 жыл бұрын

@@themisterh you gotta LIVE STRONG with those bracelets

@ronniepirtlejr2606 4 жыл бұрын

I worked in a factory in the late 1990s making nails, DA Brad nails & ringed shank nails. I ran a machine that turned wire into nails. It was from Italy. I liked the job alot! With six to eight machines, you could get well over a million Nails a day punched out! PS. Are factory shut down because we couldn't compete with the Chinese. And we were working dirt cheap!

@mrfailure93 5 жыл бұрын

I've literally been waiting weeks for this video!

@indyphoto1 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy these segments!

@octogames6823 4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love these types of shows. How it Made Nexus style!!! ^.^

@Valfaun 5 жыл бұрын

i think the inspection machine precisely air blasting the screws off the dis(c/k) was my favorite part in this one

@wizewizard1840 5 ай бұрын

06:08 in my opinion it does not use a laser to check the dimensions of the screws. as far as I can tell the screws are measured by a camera system. I know that because I both manufacture and work with these type of 100% control machines.

@frantiseksram9741 5 жыл бұрын

Love it, do more mate 👍

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 4 жыл бұрын

Knowing that these are not screws but bolts... priceless.

@Gixxer983 5 жыл бұрын

These factory tours are fascinating.

@redsquirrelftw 5 жыл бұрын

That was neat. It's easy to forget how involved it can be to make even simple every day things like screws, which are in pretty much everything.

@junex0320 5 жыл бұрын

A SCREW CLASS?!? A class teaching you how to screw?

@randomsomeguy156 5 жыл бұрын

Don't need a class for that ;)

@mycosys 5 жыл бұрын

I studied engineering for a while, but i soon decided to move to "Screw Class!!!"

@onboard3 5 жыл бұрын

If it's good, blow it. Passing grade.

@guoxiaoran8700 5 жыл бұрын

Actually it is screw department in Chinese. The only reason that those factory use sctew class is because they use the not useful translation machine online.

@Keullo-eFIN 5 жыл бұрын

No screwing around!

@cream_soda 5 жыл бұрын

This was definitely the coolest of the factory tours

@joshuagodwin8565 5 жыл бұрын

"Next on how it's made GN, how *you* were made, featuring special guest star- your parents and a chalk board."

@Javierm0n0 5 жыл бұрын

Lol got an ad for set screws. Love the vid GN.

@DRSDavidSoft 5 жыл бұрын

I always wondered how these PC screws are made, this was really interesting to watch. I'll be happy to see other Chinese manufacturers making PC parts!

@dosgos 5 жыл бұрын

Great factory series!

@Rickles 5 жыл бұрын

How it's made content is a great crossover topic. I dig it.

@adbaladba 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible amount of detail shows true passion for roots of computers. Only on Gamers Nexus. :)

@giovannip.1433 5 жыл бұрын

WoW! Great stuff!

@lagynas 5 жыл бұрын

I like these factory tours .

@Datastreamx 5 жыл бұрын

GN spoiling us with all this good how it's made content!

@GMLSX 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, up to 60+ years old machines w/o any computers still running strong. Still had to learn how to "program" (calculating the profile of a steel tube that pushes the tools along) those like 25 years ago. Back then I did not think anyone would use these as we've got CNC lathes.

@sturdybutter 3 жыл бұрын

I could watch videos like this with Steve narrating all day long.

@whydoievenbothertoputthish2199 5 жыл бұрын

I used to work in a factory like this we made specialized bolts and nuts for cars etc and its funny to see everything is exactly the same in therms of processing even the drab green paint on the machines are the same xD

@clawsoon 3 жыл бұрын

How likely is it that these machines were originally American or European and got shipped over when production was moved? I watched a documentary about an entire giant coke factory being disassembled and moved from Germany to China (Losers and Winners, 2006), so moving a few machines like this seems like it'd be straightforward.

@berenscott8999 5 жыл бұрын

These machines are a modern day automated lathe. They are literally the greatest invention ever made, and track the explosion of human civilisation perfectly. Once the first lathe was made, this led to advancements in technology that cannot be ignored. There is practically nothing we can see today that isn't part realised by lathe technology. You are never a meter away from something that a lathe made or made by a machine containing parts a lathe made.

@dslynx Жыл бұрын

I know this video is old and they are just making screws.. but that was wicked awesome!

@FerralVideo 4 жыл бұрын

I find it awesome that from raw metal to finished product, the manufacturing equipment is all purely mechanical. The only time they see a computer is in the automated optical inspection machine.

@djkincaid 4 жыл бұрын

thanks. well told

@EndoBaggins 5 жыл бұрын

This was pretty freaking cool 👌

@techworksinfo 2 жыл бұрын

Good work bro

@jaykesrwani 5 жыл бұрын

Cooler master is being so good to GN we should give them love back

@Mythricia1988 5 жыл бұрын

Very satisfactory!

@tcmtech7515 5 жыл бұрын

What's amazing and almost a bit scary is how much of the things like common screws and fasteners and other small hardware is made on now ancient all cam and roller timing logic controlled machines.

@georgedoubleyou4098 5 жыл бұрын

Here the threads are made by cutting. But this is weaker than when they are rolled because of cold forming. But for a case they don't have to be as strong I guess.

@chriskaradimos9394 5 жыл бұрын

good video thnx

@anime130 5 жыл бұрын

I see a lot of screwing around during the making of this video

@H1zN 5 жыл бұрын

Finally. I waited so long for that vid 😎

@jamieamicone8070 5 жыл бұрын

Why?

@losthatter123184 4 жыл бұрын

You know you're a nerd when you select the " How screws are made " video, over the - "Top 10 hottest celebrities ever" video... Ahhh screws. How you fascinate me. LOL

@joeyvigil 5 жыл бұрын

Great series, going to be sad when it ends.

@mdmostafakamal5868 3 жыл бұрын

Very very nice

@Crazyspade34 5 жыл бұрын

Now this is my kind of video! I work on screw machines everyday. Not the same kind though, I work on Davenports and Brown and Sharpes.

@johntotten4872 5 жыл бұрын

Cool video.

@halcyondraconis7437 5 жыл бұрын

Screws make the things that make the things that make the world go 'round...

@Nicolas-zo6rg 5 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna hit a low when these tours run out :(

@hamilpatel4025 5 жыл бұрын

interesting, but not as _riveting_ as I was expecting. ... sorry. great mini-series, factory tour.

@Arfaer 5 жыл бұрын

Screw you, man!

@BRUXXUS 5 жыл бұрын

Nailed it.

@psychozulu 5 жыл бұрын

That's very "fasten"ating

@redmatrix 5 жыл бұрын

With all these puns, i hope there is no stand-off.

@spyderlogan4992 5 жыл бұрын

Such a simple part, but the machines that make the screws?...Incredible that someone invented them for mass production.

@researchandbuild1751 5 жыл бұрын

But who made the first screw to use to build the machines to make screws?

@footpetaljones 5 жыл бұрын

@@researchandbuild1751 Screws have been made by hand since we started recording history, but Maudsley is credited with making the first screw cutting lathe around 1800.

@PainterVierax 5 жыл бұрын

@@researchandbuild1751 Handmade screws existed long before the industrial era and the first screw machine. And I bet that the first machine used rivets since it's easier to make.

@AlternateCurrent. Жыл бұрын

Love this business model.

@baciatzi8836 5 жыл бұрын

Use to love How It's Made!

@JoneNascimento 5 жыл бұрын

I love how Steve with his "I'm so bored of all this shit" voice makes ironic puns. It sounds really convincing for people who doesn't know him.

@BMXaster 5 жыл бұрын

Just for information. These are all screws for metal application. There are also screws for wood, drywall, sheemetal and concrete application. which are not all made the same.

@brandonwalter7908 5 жыл бұрын

Love this video. Wish you woulda put some Mr. Rogers background music behind it tho. lol

@2000cobraguy 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what would happen if the "Screw class" sign was bookended by cardboard cutouts of Beavis and Butthead? That would be cool! hehe hehe

@peterjansen4826 5 жыл бұрын

It is very interesting to see how these products are made. I have been curious about it for years and now I can finally see it. Too bad that it probably won't happen that we see how CPU's and GPU's are being made (just the implementation of what has been designed, the designs are way beyond the comprehension of almost all viewers). Too many secrets which they don't want to get out. Gamers Nexus, if you ever come in the Neterlands, Belgium, Northern France or Germany, how about a tour in ASML to see the lithography? They probably are willing to show some interesting stuff. Maybe the company which does the etching and deposition of metals on those wafers might be willing to show a lot of their process. I don't expect Intel, TSMC, Samsung and GF to show a lot but it would be mighty interesting. In Belgium you could take a look at IMEC.